It has been an absolutely off-the-wall year for Apple news. I was genuinely impressed by how many surprises the company packed into 2023 and I’m not just talking about the usual upgraded iPhones and MacBooks. I’ve been a tech reporter for over 15 years and Apple is a company that often feels predictable to me.
Apple made decisions that rocked our world this year, entering new areas of business, bringing products back that we once thought were goners and taking risks on entirely new software and hardware.
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Apple threw a ton of unexpected news nuggets our way. So let’s look back at the biggest Apple news that happened in 2023 and the stories that will shape our world going forward.
Vision Pro becomes a reality
There’s no bigger story for Apple this year than the Vision Pro headset. It was rumored and reported on for years, but Tim Cook finally debuted it to the world in June at Apple’s developer conference WWDC.
But, it’s not quite done yet. We got a preview of what it will look like and even the $3,499 starting price. We learned some things you can do wearing it, how you’ll control it and what you’ll look like wearing it. But we did not see Tim Cook or any Apple executive use it. Only a select group of reporters, including CNET’s Scott Stein, have experienced it in brief demos. The headset even has its own software called VisionOS.
What makes the Vision Pro extra special is that there’s been so much buildup. But it’s not the first time we’ve waited for a new Apple product to launch after its announcement. The first iPhone was announced at MacWorld in January 2007, but didn’t launch for another six months. When the iPad was announced in January 2010, it wasn’t released until April and the Apple Watch was unveiled in September 2014 but went on sale seven months later.
The past six months have included a lot of Vision Pro teases and developer testing. The tech involved does make…
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